Leo Polovets of Susa Ventures publishes an excellent blog called
Coding VC. There you can find some excellent posts, such as
pitches by analogy, and an algorithm for seed round valuations
and analyzing product hunt data. He recently wrote a blog post
about a topic near and dear to my heart, Which Technologies do
Startups […]

We’ll be publishing a series of posts on OpenStack and Trove over
the next few weeks, diving into their usage and purpose. For
readers who are already familiar with these technologies, there
should be no doubt as to why we are incredibly excited about
them, but for those who aren’t, consider this a small
introduction to the basics and concepts.

What is Database as a Service (DBaaS)?In a
nutshell, DBaaS – as it is frequently referred to – is a loose
moniker to the concept of providing a managed cloud-based
database environment accessible by users, applications or
developers. Its aim is to provide a full-fledged database
environment, while minimizing the administrative turmoil and
pains of managing the surrounding infrastructure.

Real life example: Imagine you are working on a
new application that has to be accessible from multiple regions.
Building and maintaining a large multiregion …

Today part of Amazon Web Services failed, taking down with it a
slew of startups that all run on Amazon’s Cloud infrastructure.
AirBNB was one of the biggest, but also Heroku, Reddit,
Minecraft, Flipboard & Coursera down with it. Its not the first time. What the heck
happened, and why should we care?

1. Root Cause

The AWS service allows companies like AirBNB to build web
applications, and host them on servers owned and managed by
Amazon. The so-called raw iron of this army of compute power sits
in datacenters. Each datacenter is …

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